30 Democrats sent a letter to President Biden urging him to pursue direct talks with Russia. They were criticized for saying Ukraine should just surrender to Russia. This tells you something about how this debate has become a real political football in Washington that it got the reaction it did, says CNN's John Berman.
The next Congress could be a whole lot less willing to keep spending billions on aid to Ukraine. It’s time to talk about how this war could end.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Miles Bryan, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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